Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Robert M. Sapolsky

    Organismal stress and telomeric aging: An unexpected connection

    PNAS 2004 101:17323-17324; published ahead of print December 3, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408041101
    • See companion article on page 17312 in issue 49 of volume 101
  • Commentary:
    • Dante Cicchetti
    • and Jennifer A. Blender

    A multiple-levels-of-analysis approach to the study of developmental processes in maltreated children

    PNAS 2004 101:17325-17326; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408033101
    • See companion article on page 17316 in issue 49 of volume 101
  • Commentary:
    • Alan R. Fersht

    Φ value versus ψ analysis

    PNAS 2004 101:17327-17328; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407863101
    • See companion article on page 17377 in issue 50 of volume 101
  • Commentary:
    • Kevin Miyashiro
    • and James Eberwine

    Fragile X syndrome: (What's) lost in translation?

    PNAS 2004 101:17329-17330; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408034101
    • See companion article on page 17504 in issue 50 of volume 101

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Myung Chul Choi,
    • Thomas Pfohl,
    • Zhiyu Wen,
    • Youli Li,
    • Mahn Won Kim,
    • Jacob N. Israelachvili,
    • and Cyrus R. Safinya

    From the Cover: Ordered patterns of liquid crystal toroidal defects by microchannel confinement

    PNAS 2004 101:17340-17344; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407925101
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • B. Urbanc,
    • L. Cruz,
    • S. Yun,
    • S. V. Buldyrev,
    • G. Bitan,
    • D. B. Teplow,
    • and H. E. Stanley

    In silico study of amyloid β-protein folding and oligomerization

    PNAS 2004 101:17345-17350; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408153101

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Beatrice Vallone,
    • Karin Nienhaus,
    • Annemarie Matthes,
    • Maurizio Brunori,
    • and G. Ulrich Nienhaus

    The structure of carbonmonoxy neuroglobin reveals a heme-sliding mechanism for control of ligand affinity

    PNAS 2004 101:17351-17356; published ahead of print November 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407633101

Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
    • Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski
    • and Józef H. Przytycki

    Unexpected connections between Burnside groups and knot theory

    PNAS 2004 101:17357-17360; published ahead of print December 2, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406098101

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Beatrice Vallone,
    • Karin Nienhaus,
    • Annemarie Matthes,
    • Maurizio Brunori,
    • and G. Ulrich Nienhaus

    The structure of carbonmonoxy neuroglobin reveals a heme-sliding mechanism for control of ligand affinity

    PNAS 2004 101:17351-17356; published ahead of print November 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407633101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Nizar N. Batada,
    • Kenneth D. Westover,
    • David A. Bushnell,
    • Michael Levitt,
    • and Roger D. Kornberg

    Diffusion of nucleoside triphosphates and role of the entry site to the RNA polymerase II active center

    PNAS 2004 101:17361-17364; published ahead of print December 1, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408168101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Sergei Nechaev,
    • Masood Kamali-Moghaddam,
    • Estelle André,
    • Jean-Paul Léonetti,
    • and E. Peter Geiduschek

    The bacteriophage T4 late-transcription coactivator gp33 binds the flap domain of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase

    PNAS 2004 101:17365-17370; published ahead of print December 1, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408028101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Katja Wenig,
    • Lorenz Chatwell,
    • Ulrich von Pawel-Rammingen,
    • Lars Björck,
    • Robert Huber,
    • and Peter Sondermann

    Structure of the streptococcal endopeptidase IdeS, a cysteine proteinase with strict specificity for IgG

    PNAS 2004 101:17371-17376; published ahead of print December 1, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407965101

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • B. Urbanc,
    • L. Cruz,
    • S. Yun,
    • S. V. Buldyrev,
    • G. Bitan,
    • D. B. Teplow,
    • and H. E. Stanley

    In silico study of amyloid β-protein folding and oligomerization

    PNAS 2004 101:17345-17350; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408153101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Tobin R. Sosnick,
    • Robin S. Dothager,
    • and Bryan A. Krantz

    Differences in the folding transition state of ubiquitin indicated by φ and ψ analyses

    PNAS 2004 101:17377-17382; published ahead of print December 2, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407683101
    • See commentary article on page 17327 in issue 50 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • David A. Edwards,
    • Jonathan C. Man,
    • Peter Brand,
    • Jeffrey P. Katstra,
    • K. Sommerer,
    • Howard A. Stone,
    • Edward Nardell,
    • and Gerhard Scheuch

    Inhaling to mitigate exhaled bioaerosols

    PNAS 2004 101:17383-17388; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408159101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • James G. Bann,
    • Jerome S. Pinkner,
    • Carl Frieden,
    • and Scott J. Hultgren

    Catalysis of protein folding by chaperones in pathogenic bacteria

    PNAS 2004 101:17389-17393; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408072101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Franc Avbelj,
    • Darko Kocjan,
    • and Robert L. Baldwin

    Protein chemical shifts arising from α-helices and β-sheets depend on solvent exposure

    PNAS 2004 101:17394-17397; published ahead of print December 1, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407969101

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Ruth Yokoyama,
    • Eileen O'Toole,
    • Sudipto Ghosh,
    • and David R. Mitchell

    Regulation of flagellar dynein activity by a central pair kinesin

    PNAS 2004 101:17398-17403; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406817101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Amy E. Palmer,
    • Can Jin,
    • John C. Reed,
    • and Roger Y. Tsien

    Bcl-2-mediated alterations in endoplasmic reticulum Ca 2+ analyzed with an improved genetically encoded fluorescent sensor

    PNAS 2004 101:17404-17409; published ahead of print December 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408030101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Jaime Martín-Benito,
    • Sara Bertrand,
    • Ting Hu,
    • Paul J. Ludtke,
    • Joseph N. McLaughlin,
    • Barry M. Willardson,
    • José L. Carrascosa,
    • and José M. Valpuesta

    Structure of the complex between the cytosolic chaperonin CCT and phosducin-like protein

    PNAS 2004 101:17410-17415; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405070101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Sanghoon Lee,
    • Charlotte Andrieu,
    • Frédéric Saltel,
    • Olivier Destaing,
    • Jessie Auclair,
    • Véronique Pouchkine,
    • Jocelyne Michelon,
    • Bruno Salaun,
    • Ryuji Kobayashi,
    • Pierre Jurdic,
    • Elliott D. Kieff,
    • and Bakary S. Sylla

    IκB kinase β phosphorylates Dok1 serines in response to TNF, IL-1, or γ radiation

    PNAS 2004 101:17416-17421; published ahead of print December 1, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408061101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Frédéric Sidoux-Walter,
    • Nina Pettersson,
    • and Stefan Hohmann

    The Saccharomyces cerevisiae aquaporin Aqy1 is involved in sporulation

    PNAS 2004 101:17422-17427; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404337101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Shuo-Chien Ling,
    • Peter S. Fahrner,
    • William T. Greenough,
    • and Vladimir I. Gelfand

    Transport of Drosophila fragile X mental retardation protein-containing ribonucleoprotein granules by kinesin-1 and cytoplasmic dynein

    PNAS 2004 101:17428-17433; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408114101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Anikó Náray-Fejes-Tóth,
    • Peter M. Snyder,
    • and Géza Fejes-Tóth

    The kidney-specific WNK1 isoform is induced by aldosterone and stimulates epithelial sodium channel-mediated Na + transport

    PNAS 2004 101:17434-17439; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408146101

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Dora Biro,
    • Jessica Meade,
    • and Tim Guilford

    Familiar route loyalty implies visual pilotage in the homing pigeon

    PNAS 2004 101:17440-17443; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406984101

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Ana L. Caicedo
    • and Barbara A. Schaal

    Heterogeneous evolutionary processes affect R gene diversity in natural populations of Solanum pimpinellifolium

    PNAS 2004 101:17444-17449; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407899101

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Brian P. Chadwick
    • and Huntington F. Willard

    Multiple spatially distinct types of facultative heterochromatin on the human inactive X chromosome

    PNAS 2004 101:17450-17455; published ahead of print December 1, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408021101

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • S. Wong,
    • J. McLaughlin,
    • D. Cheng,
    • C. Zhang,
    • K. M. Shokat,
    • and O. N. Witte

    Sole BCR-ABL inhibition is insufficient to eliminate all myeloproliferative disorder cell populations

    PNAS 2004 101:17456-17461; published ahead of print October 25, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407061101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Denise M. Crooks,
    • Gustavo Pacheco-Rodriguez,
    • Rosamma M. DeCastro,
    • J. Philip McCoy, Jr.,
    • Ji-an Wang,
    • Fumiyuki Kumaki,
    • Thomas Darling,
    • and Joel Moss

    Molecular and genetic analysis of disseminated neoplastic cells in lymphangioleiomyomatosis

    PNAS 2004 101:17462-17467; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407971101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Min Yan,
    • Ronald M. Rerko,
    • Petra Platzer,
    • Dawn Dawson,
    • Joseph Willis,
    • Min Tong,
    • Earl Lawrence,
    • James Lutterbaugh,
    • Shilong Lu,
    • James K. V. Willson,
    • Guangbin Luo,
    • Jack Hensold,
    • Hsin-Hsiung Tai,
    • Keith Wilson,
    • and Sanford D. Markowitz

    From the Cover: 15-Hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase, a COX-2 oncogene antagonist, is a TGF-β-induced suppressor of human gastrointestinal cancers

    PNAS 2004 101:17468-17473; published ahead of print December 1, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406142101

Microbiology

  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Marisa P. McShane
    • and Richard Longnecker

    Cell-surface expression of a mutated Epstein–Barr virus glycoprotein B allows fusion independent of other viral proteins

    PNAS 2004 101:17474-17479; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404535101
  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Noreen R. Francis,
    • Peter M. Wolanin,
    • Jeffry B. Stock,
    • David J. DeRosier,
    • and Dennis R. Thomas

    From the Cover: Three-dimensional structure and organization of a receptor/signaling complex

    PNAS 2004 101:17480-17485; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407826101
  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Himatkumar V. Patel,
    • Kavita A. Vyas,
    • Xibing Li,
    • Regina Savtchenko,
    • and Saul Roseman

    Subcellular distribution of enzyme I of the Escherichia coli phospho enol pyruvate:glycose phosphotransferase system depends on growth conditions

    PNAS 2004 101:17486-17491; published ahead of print November 22, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407865101
  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Amita Sharma
    • and Ayub Qadri

    Vi polysaccharide of Salmonella typhi targets the prohibitin family of molecules in intestinal epithelial cells and suppresses early inflammatory responses

    PNAS 2004 101:17492-17497; published ahead of print December 2, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407536101
  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Anna Zago,
    • Cheryl R. Jogger,
    • and Patricia G. Spear

    Use of herpes simplex virus and pseudorabies virus chimeric glycoprotein D molecules to identify regions critical for membrane fusion

    PNAS 2004 101:17498-17503; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408186101

Neuroscience

  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Ivan Jeanne Weiler,
    • Chad C. Spangler,
    • Anna Y. Klintsova,
    • Aaron W. Grossman,
    • Soong Ho Kim,
    • Valerie Bertaina-Anglade,
    • Hooma Khaliq,
    • Froukje E. de Vries,
    • Femke A. E. Lambers,
    • Fatima Hatia,
    • Christine K. Base,
    • and William T. Greenough

    From the Cover: Fragile X mental retardation protein is necessary for neurotransmitter-activated protein translation at synapses

    PNAS 2004 101:17504-17509; published ahead of print November 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407533101
    • See commentary article on page 17329 in issue 50 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Christophe Lo Bianco,
    • Bernard L. Schneider,
    • Matthias Bauer,
    • Ali Sajadi,
    • Alexis Brice,
    • Takeshi Iwatsubo,
    • and Patrick Aebischer

    Lentiviral vector delivery of parkin prevents dopaminergic degeneration in an α-synuclein rat model of Parkinson's disease

    PNAS 2004 101:17510-17515; published ahead of print December 2, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405313101
  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Ricardo Gil-da-Costa,
    • Allen Braun,
    • Marco Lopes,
    • Marc D. Hauser,
    • Richard E. Carson,
    • Peter Herscovitch,
    • and Alex Martin

    Toward an evolutionary perspective on conceptual representation: Species-specific calls activate visual and affective processing systems in the macaque

    PNAS 2004 101:17516-17521; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408077101
  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Mohsin Raza,
    • Robert E. Blair,
    • Sompong Sombati,
    • Dawn S. Carter,
    • Laxmikant S. Deshpande,
    • and Robert J. DeLorenzo

    Evidence that injury-induced changes in hippocampal neuronal calcium dynamics during epileptogenesis cause acquired epilepsy

    PNAS 2004 101:17522-17527; published ahead of print December 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408155101
  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Florian T. Merkle,
    • Anthony D. Tramontin,
    • José Manuel García-Verdugo,
    • and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

    Radial glia give rise to adult neural stem cells in the subventricular zone

    PNAS 2004 101:17528-17532; published ahead of print December 1, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407893101

Physiology

  • Biological Sciences - Physiology:
    • Peter J. Mohler,
    • Ilaria Rivolta,
    • Carlo Napolitano,
    • Guy LeMaillet,
    • Stephen Lambert,
    • Silvia G. Priori,
    • and Vann Bennett

    Na v 1.5 E1053K mutation causing Brugada syndrome blocks binding to ankyrin-G and expression of Na v 1.5 on the surface of cardiomyocytes

    PNAS 2004 101:17533-17538; published ahead of print December 3, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403711101